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I would recommend reading or listening to the book I suggested above or checking out the glucose goddess on Instagram. It seems pretty revolutionary to me and if it works out a real game changer that’s easily incorporated into life. The hunger comes from the crash in bloody sugar so you need to try and flatten the peaks and troughs, it’s actually pretty easily done with loads of “hacks”. For instance eating some carrot sticks and hummus (fibre) before your normal meal massively affects the glucose and insulin response and whether your body stores or burns fats and how hungry you feel. Essentially you want to avoid eating starchy carbs first if possible.
Jimm-
I’m curious to read through it.
Would be interesting to see how it relates to weight loss.I think I get triggered when writers say calories are irrelevant. What might be more correct is that calorie counting may be unnecessary if you have a better awareness of how to manage your hunger spikes and urge to overeat. Because you are less likely to gain weight and fat.
Carrots and hummus are a bad example for me, because it’s one of the foods I can’t stop eating once I start.
Like sweet and salty popcorn and manomasa tortilla chips.
Definitely possible to derail a weight loss diet by eating hummus. (Peanut butter also gets an honourable mention of foods I need to avoid) -
personally I think there is lots of extra info out there on how to diet/lose weight - but mostly people are looking to shift books, courses, ads, media etc. The Glucose Goddess was product lead at 23&me - this was famously a performance marketing dtc product used for data harvesting and flipping the data to GSK amongst other things. Now she's shilling her book/ideas in this area - hardly likely to give a balanced on un-biased view.
It's like the guy who said that exercise doesn't help weightloss on the steve bartlett podcast, everyone has to have some hot-take in order to sell some kind of media. I'm sure it's all interesting but I think it's extra data points rather than a breakthrough in how someone who wants to simply lose weight might think about things - eat less, move more :)
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A few Ted Talks with researchers discuss sugar as being the preferred food of cancer cells. Low sugar diets are being tried to starve cancer. If you need something to get you off sugar that would do it.
Acliff
Tenderloin
davidual
For losing weight or for general health?
I think the ‘what you eat’ part is not the most important thing in weight loss and frankly over complicates things.
I’ve read articles which suggest that foods which contain both sugar and fat are not recommended because your body burns the sugar as a priority and tends to store the fat. Maybe that is true when you’re combating weight gain, eating a surplus or bulking, but if you’re body is in a calorie deficit, that fat gets burned throughout the day anyway.
For example, you would 100% lose lots of weight if you ate only the following:
500 calories of chocolate a day
Or
500 calories of mayonnaise a day
Or
500 calories of almonds a day
Or
500 calories of steak a day
Or
500 calories of pasta a day
Or
500 calories of cabbage a day
All of those would have hugely different volumes, some of them would have more metabolic cost in digesting and some would put you into ketosis, some would retain more water. some of them would be more damaging to your body and muscle mass and all of them would drive you insane.
However, you would still end up losing a similar level of weight, because thermodynamics.
Obviously any of the above is not recommended for your health, and good quality food and a balanced diet is better for your body.
The biggest challenge to losing weight is willpower and changing eating, drinking and snacking habits. If you’re struggling with that, then adding extra layers of complexity by adding nutrient timing and food combinations, you’re less likely to stick to the diet. And consistency is king.